Adam Sage 
Artistic Director
Adam Sage has enjoyed a nearly three-decade performing, teaching, coaching and choreographic career that spanned four continents.
Mr. Sage directed the School of Nashville Ballet fore more than seven years and served as interim artistic director of the National Dance Company of Bophuthatswana in Southern Africa, and as artistic director of the MJCC School of Dance/Theatre Arts Centre in Memphis, TN.
He began his twenty years on stage at the age of seventeen with the California Ballet in his hometown of San Diego, before moving on to dance with Ballet West, Ballet Memphis and as Guest Artist with Nashville Ballet. Internationally, he has been a principal dancer with such companies as Hong Kong Ballet, Ballet Philippines, N.A.P.A.C. Dance Company and the National Dance Company of Bophuthatswana in South Africa.
Mr. Sage has performed principal roles in all the great classics, including Romeo & Juliet, Swan Lake, Giselle, Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Coppelia, La Bayadere, and Cinderella, and in works by dance luminaries such as John Cranko, Kenneth McMillan, George Balanchine, Ninnette de Valois and Frederick Ashton. He has had the honor of dancing at some of the most prestigious theatres in the world including the Opera House at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., The Hong Kong Cultural Center and in command performances at the Cultural Center of the Philippines for President Gerdinand Marcos & First Lady Imelda Marcos. While in the Philippines he had the good fortune to be coached personally by the legendary Soviet dancer Vaktang Chabukiani for the leading role of Solar in Chabukiani’s original version of “La Bayadere “.
As a teacher, Mr. Sage has coached and taken students to the prestigious “Prix de Lausanne International Ballet Competition” in Switzerland as well as the “American Ballet Competition” in Miami, for which he is serving on the jury panel for the 2007 competition. He was inducted into the “Who’s who among America’s Teachers” in 2005 and the “National Honor Roll’s Outstanding American Teachers” in 2006 for his exemplary teaching and dedication to the youth of America.
He was most recently affiliated with Nashville Ballet and the School of Nashville Ballet, where as Ballet Master he taught both company classes and served as director of the School. He has also taught company class for Hong Kong Ballet, N.A.P.A.C. Dance Company, Ballet Met, Cathy Sharp Tanz Ensemble and Ballet Memphis. He has been a faculty member for the Ballet Philippines, Memphis Concert Ballet School, Memphis Classical Ballet, MJCC School of Dance and Mid South Dance Theatre.
In demand as a master teacher, Sage has taught for Virginia School of the Arts, California Ballet School, Virginia Governor’s School for the Arts, Alabama Dance Theatre, Spring Field Ballet Company, Mississippi Metropolitan Ballet, Washington State Ballet, Ballet Arts, South East Regional Ballet Association and for the past seven years at the National and Regional High School dance festivals.
For Nashville Ballet alone Adam Sage has choreographed the Princess Waltz, Czardas, and Neapolitan in “Swan Lake”, Act III the garland waltz in “Sleeping Beauty”, the pas de deux “Hoop” and staged the principal pas de deux’s in the “Nutcracker”, the Prologue from Sleeping Beauty, and the Pas de Trois from “Swan Lake” as well as Robert Joffrey’s “Pas de Deeses”. In 2003 he founded the new “Nashville Ballet Youth Ensemble” for which he has choreographed over 20 new works and staged “Paquita” and the Act I Garden Scene for “La Bayadere”. He was commissioned to choreograph”Peter and the Wolf” in 2001 for the Springfield Ballet Company.
